Does the dad return in A Wrinkle in Time?

Meg and Calvin are kept as prisoners, but Meg is able to move forward with the magnifying glasses to see some kind of invisible staircase and finally locate her father. The two of them reunite tearfully and embrace.
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What happened to the dad in wrinkle in time?

Meg's father and a physicist who works for a top-secret government agency on experiments with travel through space-time in the fifth dimension. In trying to tesser to Mars (i.e., travel through a tesseract, or wrinkle in time), he is captured and imprisoned on the dark planet of Camazotz.
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What happens to Calvin in wrinkle in time?

While the two aren't featured in every book in both series, we learn that Meg becomes a mathematician and Calvin becomes a marine biologist with multiple doctorates — he's in grad school at age 19 during Many Waters, the fourth book in the Time quintet.
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What happens to Charles Wallace in a wrinkle in time?

Charles Wallace tries to fight IT with his exceptional intelligence but is overpowered by the evil and becomes a robot-like creature mouthing the words with which IT infuses him.
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Does a wrinkle in time have a happy ending?

The ending of the novel is definitely happy. But from another perspective, the more universal perspective that the novel itself cultivates, that happiness is very limited. There's also the little matter of Mrs.
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A Wrinkle in Time: Meg Finds Her Father



Does Meg find her father in A Wrinkle in Time?

Meg has found her father, but nothing has changed. They are still stuck on Camazotz, the Universe is still being threatened by the Black Thing, and they are still at the mercy of IT.
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What does Mrs. Whatsit turn into?

With Mrs. Who's permission, Mrs. Whatsit transforms herself into a beautiful creature with a horse's body and a human torso.
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Is Charles Wallace Meg's brother?

Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace Murry

Deric McCabe is Charles Wallace Murry, Meg's little brother. Even though he is the youngest of the group, he is the most powerful.
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Is Charles Wallace in A Wrinkle in Time adopted?

But for those keeping track, in the book, Charles Wallace is the biological son of Murrys, while in the very first scene of the film, we learn Charles Wallace is adopted. DuVernay said she made that change to honor McCabe's Filipino descent.
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Why is Charles Wallace special?

Charles Wallace is the Murry's youngest child. He is highly intelligent, and he possesses special abilities that allow him to understand the thoughts and intentions of others. His uniqueness is not well-suited to a child's social life, so his siblings worry about him starting school.
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How does Meg save Wallace?

How does Meg ultimately save Charles Wallace? Meg ultimately saves Charles Wallace by going by herself to Camazotz and faces IT and embraces her love for Charles Wallace. She thinks about how much she loves him.
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What does Calvin O'Keefe look like?

A Man of Many Hats

Well, this pretty much describes the life of Calvin O'Keefe in A Wrinkle in Time. You might say he wears a different hat at home, at school, and when he is with the Murry family. On the surface, he is a tall, thin teenage boy with freckles and blue eyes.
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How long was Meg's father missing in A Wrinkle in Time?

Murry, the children's long disappeared father, is a brilliant physicist who landed on a planet overtaken by the Black Thing when he tried to tesseract for the first time. He's been missing for over a year when his children rescue him from Camazotz.
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How does Meg defeat it?

In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg defeats IT with love. She rescues her father from IT, but in the process, her brother Charles Wallace is left behind in IT's...
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Who gets left behind on planet Camazotz?

At the end of the book the children have saved Mr. Murry from imprisonment on Camazotz, but Charles Wallace was taken over by IT, the one who had Mr. Murry, and was left behind. Meg is forced to go back to Camazotz alone to save her brother, using something that she has the IT can't fight.
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Why does Meg have to return to Camazotz?

Murry and Calvin both offer to return to Camazotz to save Charles Wallace, it is ultimately determined that Meg is the only one who could possibly succeed in saving Charles Wallace from IT's control. The Mrs.
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Does Meg have twin brothers in A Wrinkle in Time?

If you've read the A Wrinkle in Time book and have now seen the Disney movie adaptation of the Madeleine L'Engle novel, then you know two characters are missing from the film: Sandy and Dennys, Meg Murry's 10-year-old twin brothers who become very important in the Time Quintet novel Many Waters.
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Does Charles Wallace have autism?

Charles Wallace's advanced vocabulary skills are also consistent with a diagnosis of high functioning autism as these individuals often show above average, or even superior, vocabulary skills (Saulnier & Klin, 2007).
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Are there 2 Wrinkle in Time movies?

That theoretically means that A Wrinkle in Time could get a sequel, but it seems unlikely that the movie, directed by Ava DuVernay, will lead to A Wrinkle in Time 2.
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How many siblings does Meg have in A Wrinkle in Time?

She has three siblings: her brother Charles Wallace (who traveled with her and Calvin O'Keefe on their first adventure across time and space) and twins Sandy and Dennys.
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How did Charles Wallace always know about her?

Chapter 1 Quotes

How did Charles Wallace always know about her? How could he always tell? He never knew—or seemed to care—what Dennys or Sandy were thinking. It was his mother's mind, and Meg's that he probed with frightening accuracy.
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Who is the villain in A Wrinkle in Time?

Type of Villain

IT, also known as Red while possessing him, is the main antagonist of the novel A Wrinkle in Time (the first installment to the Time Quintet series), and its 2003 and 2018 film adaptations. He is a powerful entity taking the form of a brain, and he is the ruler of planet Camazotz.
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Why did Mrs. Whatsit stop being a star?

Why did she stop being this? A star; She gave her life to help defeat evil.
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Is Mrs. Whatsit an angel?

Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit can be seen as guardian angels.
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Why did Mrs. Whatsit steal the sheets?

They steal Mrs. Buncombe's sheets to use as "ghosts" for the haunted house (to scare away intruders).
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